{"id":542982,"date":"2025-11-01T23:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T23:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/542982\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T23:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T23:17:17","slug":"serbia-marks-anniversary-of-train-station-disaster-with-protests-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/542982\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbia marks anniversary of train station disaster with protests \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vu\u010di\u0107 downplayed Saturday\u2019s events when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/11\/01\/major-demonstrations-planned-to-mark-one-year-since-tragic-awning-collapse-at-novi-sad-tra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked by reporters<\/a>. \u201cWhat is happening in Novi Sad? Is some soccer match being played?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities also canceled all rail transport in the country on Friday, claiming a bomb threat; however, <a href=\"https:\/\/balkaninsight.com\/2025\/11\/01\/huge-commemorative-rally-held-in-serbias-novi-sad-a-year-after-deaths\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media reports<\/a> suggest it was a move to prevent citizens from reaching the city for the demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>What began as a demand for accountability over a tragedy blamed on government negligence quickly escalated into nationwide protests over the past year. Widespread police brutality <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/serbia-protests-aleksandar-vucic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fueled the unrest<\/a>, eventually prompting President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 to try to calm the outrage by forcing Prime Minister Milo\u0161 Vu\u010devi\u0107 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/serbia-pm-milos-vucevic-steps-down-student-led-demonstrations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to resign<\/a> along with the rest of his cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Serbia became an EU candidate country in 2012, and it later opened accession negotiations with the EU in 2013. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen recently urged Vu\u010di\u0107 and Serbia to \u201cget concrete\u201d about joining. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vu\u010di\u0107 downplayed Saturday\u2019s events when asked by reporters. \u201cWhat is happening in Novi Sad? Is some soccer match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[41010,6502,2000,299,5187,2003,2452,809,6567,1263,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-542982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-accountability","9":"tag-aleksandar-vucic","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-law-enforcement","14":"tag-media","15":"tag-negotiations","16":"tag-serbia","17":"tag-transport","18":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115476997378229941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}